RAM Question

[LordShard]

Originally posted by PraiseA||ah
No, what I said was true. You may not have a motherboard that supports that function or maybe it was an early edition or maybe a low end one. Hmm.. Perhaps you have socket 754 and not 939. Those are possible reasons I can think of off the top of my head. You need to install pairs of Dual DDR to get the benefit.

Here is an article you may find helpful.

http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Memory/Dual-Channel/

I have athlon 3200. Lol. Like I said I bought my top tier mobo 1 month before dual channel was available.

[PraiseA||ah Profile]

Originally posted by LordShard
I have athlon 3200. Lol. Like I said I bought my top tier mobo 1 month before dual channel was available.

I do believe that is not socket 939. So I stand corrected. It's socket 939 AMD 64 chips that are all dual.

[LordShard]

Doesn't matter tho, dual channel doens' tincrease performance by a significant amount to equate to anythign anyways.

[Evan Profile Website]

Originally posted by LordShard
Doesn't matter tho, dual channel doens' tincrease performance by a significant amount to equate to anythign anyways.

Yes it does.

[LordShard]

Originally posted by Evan
Yes it does.

If you consider a 0.5% increase in some cases a significant enough of an amount. Sometimes it will be as high as 1 maybe 2% but never higher.

[Evan Profile Website]

Originally posted by LordShard
If you consider a 0.5% increase in some cases a significant enough of an amount. Sometimes it will be as high as 1 maybe 2% but never higher.

You obviously have never seen/used Dual Channel memory..

[LordShard]

Originally posted by Evan
You obviously have never seen/used Dual Channel memory..

Yeah I have. It's the sugar pill effect, you think it's faster (even if it isn't) so you feel like it's faster.
I've actually toggle dual channel on a PC before (mixing bank ) and run tests with no increase or decrease one way or another. Lawl

[Conscious* Profile]

To those who don't understand what my post still was about...It wasn't a question about my motherboard, i have a Socket 939, 64-Bit Setup, and I know it supports two sets of dual-channel. The question was, whether or not my first set of 512x2 would be hampered or slowed down by the new RAM i planned to put in it.

[LordShard]

Originally posted by Conscious*
To those who don't understand what my post still was about...It wasn't a question about my motherboard, i have a Socket 939, 64-Bit Setup, and I know it supports two sets of dual-channel. The question was, whether or not my first set of 512x2 would be hampered or slowed down by the new RAM i planned to put in it.

Yes it will be.

[PraiseA||ah Profile]

Originally posted by LordShard
Yes it will be.

But will you notice a difference? I sincerely doubt it.

If you run a benchmark will you get a lesser score? Probably.

As a definitive answer, technically I agree with LordShard but practically speaking there is no frickin difference.

[LordShard]

Originally posted by PraiseA||ah
But will you notice a difference? I sincerely doubt it.

If you run a benchmark will you get a lesser score? Probably.

As a definitive answer, technically I agree with LordShard but practically speaking there is no frickin difference.

If you put 5ms stick with yoru 2ms you will notice a differnce.

[Conscious* Profile]

I'll run tests on my machine tomorow when I get it with just the original 1GB of RAM and then with the 2GB of RAM.

[PraiseA||ah Profile]

Originally posted by Conscious*
I'll run tests on my machine tomorow when I get it with just the original 1GB of RAM and then with the 2GB of RAM.

A better test would be to swap the 1 GB out for the other and do the testing that way. That would show the differences between the RAM.